The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-09-08


incapacitated by an army retiring board
for active service on account OF disability
incident to the service. Lieut.. Lord would
soon have become q captain.
Pension Commissioner Black has been
confined to his house since his return from
Weirs, N. H., suffering from an attack OF
~heumatism, and has been compelled to
ANGEL all engagements which would ne.
cessitate his leaving the city during the
ence to the published statement that his
name might be presented to the Grand
Army OF the Republic at St. Louis as
candidate for communicative Chief that 1t
was impossible that such a thing should
occur, and that he could not accept the
position il rendered.
The commissioner of the land Office di.
rects that the lands within the indemnity
belt along the Wisconsin Central and the
Omaha railroads be thrown open to set.
Element.
Haven, f. O. Nichols Neville, L. Country.
man. Observation-Disclosures. j. Prior.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT J. M Custard.
Supervising Inspector General Dumont
has decided that the hulls and boilers OF
all steam yachts, no matter how small,
must undergo inspection, and that their
pilots and engineers must be licensed
Capt. Cyrus M. Delany, 18th infantry,
is ordered to appear before the navy retir.
ing board at st. Paul.
Charles ID. Kennedy, third lieutenant OF
the United States steamer Bear, now cruis-
ing in the Arctic ocean, writes home to his
father, under date of Port Clarence. July
10, and gives faint hope that some Of the
crew of twenty two men belonging to the
whaling bark Napoleon OF this port, lost
in the Arctic in the summer OF 1885, may
yet be alive.
Seven members OF the Plainfeld, N. j.,
volunteer fire Observation-Disclosures Van
Ness, Lewis Van Ness, Horace Van Ness,
George Reed, Philip Hapenny, Robert
Skinner, and John Jackson have been ar.
rested, accused of having been the origina-
tors Of the hundred or more incendiary
fires that have taken place in the city dur
ing the last ten or twelve years.
Considerable excitement has been caused
in religious circles OF Montreal by a suit
which has been instituted in the superior
court by Rev. Pierre Napoleon Huneault
OF the Order Of the Holy Cross, known as
Brother Wilired, against Rev. Brother
Louage, provincial OF the order and supe.
rior OF Cote des Neiges college, for $4,000
damages for explosion from the order.
His health has been greatly shattered, by
arduous duties as teacher. Three years
ago he took the perpetual vows from the
principal Of the order, and since he has
few months ago he was ordered up to Mon
treal against the advice OF his doctor.
One day in July the superior Rev. Mr..
Louage told him to 60 out with the pu-
pills for q day in the mountains. The petit
toner remarked that he was too sick to
do SO. This put the superior in a great
rage and told him that he was possessed
ls<.l II oula k<
leave the room.
Robert Martin was killed, George Law
son fatally and four other miners badly
injured by an explosion of dualin at ORA.
per colliery at Gilberton, Pa.
At Chicago, John Strueby, barber, shot
George Kuhler, bartender, twice inflict-
ing fatal wounds. Strueby made no effort
to escape arrest. He claims that his wife
had been untrue to him.
At Delray, Mich, fire broke out in the
dry kiln OF the Anchor Manufacturing COM
pany. All but the hoop mill were destroy
ed. The loss is $3.50, 900; insurance,
SCI, 900.
Mr.. Blaine and the prince of Wales are
the attractions at Homberg Springs, Ger
many.
The house OF commons on Monday even
ing the goth, Holland, colonial secretary,
downe. governor general OF Canada, declar-
| ing the report that Sir John Macdonald
| had said that he would not hesitate to ask
| the aid OF imperial troops to stop the con-
struction OF the Manitoba railway to be a
| pure fabrica ton, Lord Lansdowne also
said in his dispatch; The provincial
act for the construction OF the
| Red River railway was disallowed
| by me on the advice OF irresponsible advisers,
| on the ground that the proposed line
| would tap the traffic of the Canadian Pa
| cific railway and thereby seriously injure
| the interest of the whole country, which
had submitted to large sacrifice in order
| to unite the provinces by a national road.
| Jimmy" McDevitt well known bur.
glar and nephew OF Jim Elliot, the prize
fighter, who was killed by Jerry Dunn at
| Chicago few years ago, met with a vio-
lent death in New York while trying to es-
| cape from q store when he had been dis
covered. He was surprised by porter
who closed the door on him and sent for a
policeman. After a desperate struggle to
escape, McDevitt plunged through a plate
| glass window. He was caught by the stom.
! ach and disemboweled. When released he
| was dead.
At Lebanon, KY, several buildings, in
| one OF which was the Standard Times Of
fee, were burned. Loss, $4,000.
In the Nineteenth Century appears an
article by Mr.. Gladstone entitled "Elector-
al Facts of 1887" in which he says: The
general election OF 1886 indicated not the
| conviction but the perplexity OF the ooun-
| try. The results OF the recent elections
| are equivalent to an improved Liberal
| strength of % per cent and giving the Con-
| servatives the benefit OF all doubts, q new
| election would leave the latter in minor
ity OF 1O3. This basis is to narrow to al
i - II &to co,~
| of undue confidence on the part of the Lib.
erals; but viewing the figure in cold blood,
a rational Tory or dissident will proba.
bly, regard them as OF marked significance,
and may even begin to inquire, in a refec-
tive temper. Where is all this to end?"
/ .'Blinky'' Morgan, the burglar who is
now in jail at Ravenna, Ohio for murder
ing Detective Hullgan, and who while be.
ing captured at Alpena, Mich, q short
time since, fatally shot Sheriff Lynch has
been indicated in Michigan for robbing the
Oceana county. This is the crime for which
Morgan was imprisoned when he broke
from the Grand Rapids jail. The circum-
stances surrounding his escape from that
jail are shroudsd in mystery.
On and after Sept. the price Of 1000
mile tickets over the Northern Pacific least
OF the Missouri river) and ON the Manito'
ba roads will be reduced from $50 to $2B.
Henry 8. Anderson, Of Sexton, Ark, has
been convicted Of six separate offensee
against the pension laws.
The legislature convened in extra session
at Helena, Montana. The session wal
called principally to consider thequestior
Of repeating the bounty law and amending
the revenue law passed at the last regular
session.
Charles Dickens, the SON Of the great
novelist, is expected to arrive in thll
country about the middle Of October. HI
will visit nearly all the principal cities anc
read selections from his faith er's works
The steamer 4. g. Ropes arrived in II
coma thirty-one days out from Yokoha
ma, with the largest cargo oil tee ever landed
on the Pacific coast. The cargo comprisel
45, 725 packages, enough to make 176 cal
loads. 1t will be shipped on special ireieh'
trains over the Northern Pacific, and viii
make ten train loads. The bulk 81 TIL
tea is consumed to Chicago and New York
. but over 1000 packages are destinet
. In H. Paul and S171 t1ackauaa ava Nns,